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Author's note:

Okay. I'm starting to write this .txt file (yes, I'm writing on plain text editor bundled with my Android software) today (Tuesday, .12)at 17:35 GMT+1. I won't stop until I finish, so wish me luck.

Anyways, writing the storyline was hard... Mainly because of my lack of ideas for it. But I'm having fun while writing this, so it shouldn't really be a problem :P

The second thing were those POV shifts... Well, I've got, lemme count... Five main characters, which will meet each other at certain point of story, so until that happens, I will jump from one to another when I won't be able to continue with one of them.

Wish me luck again, and remember to post comments and reviews ;)

Oh, and last thing. I'm sorry for the grammar errors, misspelling etc. It's just because my native is Polish and I don't know English that much to freely use all words. Sorry again.

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This is the ALPHA version of the chapter. Once a month, I will re-check one chapter and rewrite some points to improve it. It won't affect the story, but it will affect new readers.

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"You know, every star we see right now tells us a story. The problem is that we don't understand what they try to tell us. We see only their light, while the true lies beyond that barrier" the brown lynx said after a long pause.

Her friend adjusted better on the jade green grass under them and looked in the lynx' eyes. They were so blue, just like the sky was hiding there during the night. "Miyu... What do you mean by this?" she asked, not at all understanding the feline's words.

Miyu stood up from the ground and got closer to her friend. She took her hand and helped her stand up. After this, she pointed at the night sky. "You really don't know? Somewhere up there an answer is laying and waiting for us... For me, to uncover it"

"Answer?"

Miyu sighed and looked right into the white poodle's eyes, "Fay, the truth about our parents, how they died and who they really were"

The dog bit her lip, to not say the words that could hurt her friend. They were like sisters, and through years, their feelings began to raise to somewhat dangerous levels. Fay didn't mind Miyu's approach, but the feline was the type of "shoot first, ask questions later", so most of the time Fay was the one who stopped her friend from doing something stupid. Instead of saying her thoughts, she just sighed. "I hope you're right... Anyways, you've lost a job a few hours ago, how do you feel about this?"

The feline once again sat down and looked up into the sky. "That job was a pain in the... You know what? I'm finally free now. They can fire me, but they can't erase the military training that I have."

"What are you trying to say?"

"I think I'll once again try to join Star Fox"

"You what? Don't you remember they said that they don't have enough money to keep us in the team?"

"I remember better than you'd think. But now there is that Krystal in the team and after defeating the Aparoids, there isn't as much danger-"

"Another point why you shouldn't try to do this! No missions mean no money, that is normal! Hey, are you listening to me!? Bah, you're hopeless. Go ahead and try, but don't come back later with tears in your eyes because they've kicked you out!"

Miyu cheered up. She knew that Fay wasn't serious about all this, she just wasn't the person who could surrender during an argument fight, so she stood her ground to the end, "Thanks, sweetie" she said, giving her a quick kiss, making the poodle blush under her white fur, and sprinted towards her scout-class Zetwing.

"Hey, you didn't say that you want to go immediately!"

"Whoops, didn't I?" The feline giggled just before the canopy closed, its pitch black tinted window completely separated the two from each other. The ship then fired off its engines, the explosion-like sound pierced the air in a really long range, and the shockwave forced Fay to lose balance and fall on her back. Not that she didn't knew that won't happen, she just wanted to feel the kick. Just because.

The orange-black fighter took off from the ground, and with the small help of G-Diffusers it left the planet's atmosphere.

"Take care, will ya?" the poodle murmured under her nose when the ship disappeared in the night sky.

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"Well, this is better than nothing... I guess..." Mike said to himself after making a dull spear from the long branch. He always thought aloud when he was alone. Even if this was a strange thing, he didn't mind, because no one heard that.

The human stared at the spear with a triumphant look. Sure, it couldn't kill anything unless he charged right at it, but it offered a slight feeling of protection... Kind of.

He examined the wrist-com only to find that the only thing working right was the radar. It was the only feature which didn't need a connection with Human Ultranet.

He knew that if he tried to override the scanner security, it would probably use the radar system to make the three-dimensional map of his surroundings, but also the battery would die in less than a day, so he left that idea for later.

Astralia was three times bigger planet than Earth Prime, therefore the day and night cycle was equal times longer. If that wasn't enough, it had a neverending forest on its surface, with many colorful types of flora... And probably hostile fauna... If not count the "Aliens" he heard about.

He took a quick look at the radar only to be sure that he's still walking south, but suddenly, the small red letters appeared on the screen, which were immediately followed by sound message.

"Warning. Unknown type of lifeform detected south of current user area. Thermal scan unavailable"

"What the fuck!? Aliens?" he said to himself, instantly turning around - he didn't want to face those "unknown lifeforms"... But who, on his place, would want to risk his life in similar situation?

The human started to run. His legs were moving faster and faster until he reached sprint speed. The adrenaline was flowing through his veins, granting his muscles even more power to avoid the, probably hostile, things south of him.

"Warning. Unknown type of lifeform detected north of current user area"

Mike began to tremble with fear. They knew about him, that was certain, and he was most probably surrounded. He looked around to find something that could provide him some level of safety.

"Leaves, bark, TREES!" he shouted, running to the highest one in his line of sight. Just when he wanted to start climbing it, he felt a powerful blow of pain on his back, "AARGH!" was the last thing before the pain overtook his mind, darkness covering his eyes and nothing but sikence echoing in his ears.

"Warning. Unknown toxine detected un user's body. Head to the hospital immediately"

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The feline gazed from behind the HUD to see the enormous flying dreadnought-class cruiser in front of her. This was the first time she saw the new version of Great Fox. The old one was used as a battering ram during the Aparoid invasion and was currently in pieces of Corneria's junkyard.

Miyu turned on the computer on her right and opened the secure connection comm-channel. After a brief moment the connection was accepted and tunneled straight to Great Fox II bridge.

"R-1 Space Dynamics Great Fox II here, who are you?" the high-pitched masculine voice said through the radio.

"Erm... H-13 Phoenix Enterprises Zetwing, pilot Miyu Black here"

"Hey, aren't you that lynx who wanted to join us with your friend?"

"Yeah, that's me. And you're probably that famous son of Beltino Toad, Slippy, I presume?"

"Yep, the one and only!" the frog giggled, "Hey, say what do you want. If you want to talk to Fox, I'm sorry, he's not here. Along with Krystal and Falco they went to A... Astralia or something... General Pepper said it's important. But I can let you in-"

"No, thanks, I'll try to catch them myself. Thanks for help!" she replied happily. They remembered her, that was a good chance. And second, she could prove herself useful if she found that they are fighting at the moment.

She opened the star map in front of her and set the autopilot for Luna system, Astralia planet. It wasn't far enough, and with her ship, she coukd be there in less than a hour.

"Just wait for me guys" she said under her nose, applying the boost.

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"Fuck you, Leon" the wolf growled as he smacked the cameleon's face for the eight time, beggining next fight between those two. Sure, they both were drunk, and sure, they won't hurt each other, because they'll grow tired after a few minutes, but still, they were just demolishing the Sargasso Space Bar even more.

The air escaped from Leon's lungs as Wolf's fist hit hard his stomach, right after clawing his torso with claws sharp as knives.

"I won't give up now, not after what you've said!" Wolf growled ignoring Leon's fists hitting his whole body. He took his green leg and pulled quickly, causing his foe to lose balance and fall on the black, concrete floor. Just to make sure he won't fight back, Wolf kicked his head, not to kill him, but to make him black out. And it worked. When his unconscious teammate was laying on the center of the room, Wolf casually walked to the bar. The black panther from behind the counter looked in dispelief at his bar.

"Boss, why do you always destroy my bar with Leon?" he asked calmly, discretely keeping safe distance from the pissed off drunk wolf, just in case.

"Shut up and pour me more" he just said, ignoring the bartender's question.

For his own personal safety, he took out a new bottle of vodka and poured it into the glass in front of him.

"Leave the bottle" The dark voice said, making the panther to obey.

Wolf wasn't the person like he was back during Lylat Wars. After the Aparoid invasion, when he helped Fox get into the mother's hive and destroy it, something inside him cracked. He was changing. And he was afraid of it.

When he thought about the case, the answer was simple - McCloud. The red fox was the source of all feelings inside Wolf. He was simply jealous of him. The leader of Star Fox had everything - friends who will stand together and defend him until the end, own ship where he's able to safely spend the night, and finally, he is a hero. But now, Wolf took the place as the chief of Sargasso Space Zone, and he had Leon at the place of his best friend. When Wolf helped Fox free General Pepper from "aparoid curse", the general canceled the bounty on his head, and made him a Cornerian hero. He even wanted to give him a medal, but the offer was refused.

Still, he felt a strange feeling inside him. It grew bigger and bigger, gaining influence over his thoughts and actions... He simply was becoming a better person.

But he was aware of that happening, and his consciousness simply didn't want to become like Star Fox leader. It made him angry, and kinda afraid, so he was drowning those emotions in alcohol. But, vodka worked like a fuel, the feelings were rushing in his head and echoed in his mind.

"What the fuck is happening with me!?" he shouted aloud after drinking the whole bottle of alcohol. The destructive liquid finally began to affect his mind, he couldn't understand his own thoughts, the world began to swirl around him, and he had problems keeping his head up.

But even alcohol couldn't stop the most powerful mercenary from coming back to his quarter. He stood up and slowly walked to the door... If the thing he was doing can be named as walking.

"H-hey, boss! You've gotta pay- Okay, never mind" the bartender changed his mind when drunk wolf turned around, giving him a malicious "Fuck you" expression.

The doors closed behind him and he was finally alone. If not count dozens of mercenaries currently residing at Sargasso.

The space zone was rebuilded after the Invasion, and it now served as a normal space port, reserved for the worst people in the galaxy.

Wolf walked slowly towards the lift and tried to push the button. However, it wasn't an easy task for the drown brain of Wolf.

"Okay... Which one is the up button... Ah screw it" he thought after clicking both.

The lift arrived after a short while. The doors opened and the drunk wolf entered through it. Next task was to click the highest button on the elevator controls. Veery hard. He ended up on clicking almost every one with his open hand, as he tried to maintain balance on the moving platform... Which in fact was still for everyone else.

When the door finally opened at the highest floor of the base, a new task arose in front of our hero.

"Now... Which one door was mine..." he asked himself, trying to remember the number of his room, "it was either 24 or 42..."

The drunk mercenary lost his balance and hit the door next to him with his head.

"F...uck" he growled and tried to stand up, holding himself by the door handle. Sober guy on his place wouldn't hold the handle, because someone could open the door, causing him to fall once again. Drunk Wolf however didn't thought about that and few seconds later he was laying on the floor again, right in front of his second teammate, Panther Caroso.

"Wolf? Mamma mia, boss, what happened to you?" he gasped, looking at the mangled, bloody fur on the wolf's face.

"Shut up and help me get up" he responded, but for Panther, it sounded like "Shapa hep me geup".

"Do you want me to help you get to your room? Sure" he replied, not only guessing, but knowing what he meant. It was every day that it looked the same. Wolf can't hold his anger, so he wents with Leon to the bar. They start to drink, then fight, and in the end one of them spends the night at the bar while the other one is trying to get to his room... Most times that one is Wolf.

"Oh man... What are you going to do with yourself..."

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"Andy, hand me those friggin' grenades!" Nora shouted to her friend when she ran out of usable weapons.

After they landed on Cornerian Intl. Airport, they received a strange message, that Chip was kidnapped. Not thinking about whether it's a trap or not, Nora and Andy quickly headed to the Black Rock Enterprises, the company that was once helping Andross, providing him with stolen weapons from Cornerian military.

"Will you give me those grenades, or you'll let me-"

"Wait a moment! Don't 'ya see I'm in trouble here!?" came the response from behind of a steel crate, and after a short moment, the grenader flew through the air to their new user.

The red vixen took the safety block off and activated on-impact mode, then threw one of them in the direction where the shots came. After a loud "BANG" everyting remained silent, so both of them got out of their covers and headed through the corridor to the only door at its end.

Nora carefully pushed the handle and the door opened. The room was almost empty, on the middle there was standing a small green orb - the holoprojector. Andy slowly approached to it and turned it on.

The green orb changed into an almost human silhouette, and it began to slowly and sarcastically clap.

"Nora Vulpes Leslie... My old friend... Well, I can't say I'm surprised you fell into my trap... Again" the silhouette said.

"Dash. I knew that. Only that freak could do something like that to me" she growled, instantly recognizing the low voice of the crazy monkey, barely restraining herself from clawing the holographic picture

"Oh, that hurt. I'm a scientist, not a freak, you know"

Nora looked around. She didn't suppose he's watching her right now. The feeling of it made her feel shivers running on her back. He was the one who killed her parents back at the Lylat Wars. Of course, she didn't know that back then, especially when he was the one who helped her in searching.

"Where's Chip?" she asked neutrally, trying really hard to keep her feelings at bay.

Dash Bowman was a great psychologist. He knew what to say to hurt the most, especially when he got to know what a person felt like at the moment. He was always turning her emotions at her, changing anger, sorrow, even happiness into blinding pain. "Oh, don't be so quick... Let's talk a bit first-"

"No" Andy said, causing both of them to look at the chimp.

"Oh, Andrew Smith, what a pleasure... Sorry that I've ignored you. Let me correct that mistake" Dash said and went out of holographic camera range. A few beeping sounds were heard, then the hangar, which Nora and Andy were in began to open.

"What I'm going to do right now..." he giggled evilly, "...is the revenge for everything you did to my uncle and cousin. I will make you feel hurt, and after everything, you'll beg me to kill you. Now, Nora, say goodbye to your fr-"

The large, green beam pierced through the atmosphere of corneria, hitting the chimp.

"AAAHH! NORA! H-help!" Andy said, falling on his knees with a pain-filled screams.

"Andy!" the vixen tried to get to her friend, but she was thrown off by some force field.

The green beam began to disappear, as well as the chimp. "Nora, I'm being telepo-" he said before his body turned into a beacon of green light, which shot in the sky.

"Oh, he's here with me now" Bowman said with a mischievous smile.

Nora wasn't able to control herself anymore. She instantly thought about what pain she went through when Dash captured her few years ago. She still had marks on her skin and fur, reminding of that dark past.

"You... You MONSTER!" she screamed, ignoring the fact that there was only a picture of Dash, clawing and hitting the green mist in front of her.

He laughed silently, "Well, my dear. I want you to do something related to your friends from Star Fox. If you disobey, I'll be forced to torture, then kill your three friends-"

"Runner too!? You're such a-"

"Keep in mind, keep in mind, sweetie. Will you take this task and save your poor friends?"

She fell on her knees, not trying to hide her pain anymore. She promised herself she will protect them to the end, even with cost of her own life, but now she failed.

Bowman exactly knew how to break her, and how to use her for her own personal purposes. The red vixen was a powerful soldier, probably even more powerful than McCloud. This was the perfect opportunity to take revenge on both of them.

"So, what will you do?"

"I... I... You've won. What do you want me to do?"

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Author's notes:

(the same day, 19:00 GMT+1)

Dum dum duuuuuh! What will happen now!? My first cliffhanger in my entire life :P

First thing - I'm sorry for the poor quality of the Wolf chapter. It's because I really never, NEVER drank alcohol (even if I'm 25). The reason is personal, but in that case i want to say that I don't know how the drunk person feels inside.

Anyways, what do you think about my new writing style? I tried to get it more interesting. Please tell me what do you think about it. Personally, I think that it's better, but I'm still lacking many things... Or just I'm too quick with narration.

Btw. WOW! More than 3,5K words written on a smartphone :0 I'm shocked!

And I'm sorry for the really long time it took me to write this shit... I've got a really hard situation at home, so I just don't have time to sit on a computer. But I've got a smartphone (SE LT15i, yay!) with Android Text Editor, so I end up with writing all my ideas there, then edit it on PC.

If I get... Five reviews for this chapter, I'll come up with new episode in less than three days. You know, writing is fun and all, but without help, I won't have a motivation to continue :/

And last thing. This file was written almost entirely on small screen of smartphone, therefore you can find words where the words have wrong letters, like "mire" instead of "more". I try to find every error, but I think that's just impossible.

Sorry for the long ending note :P

Commander out.